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Monday, October 24, 2016

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It
is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces,
security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more.
Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It
is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces,
security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more.
Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

Friday, October 21, 2016

screenFetch is a "Bash Screenshot Information Tool". This handy Bash script can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information + ASCII distribution logos you see in everyone's screenshots nowadays. It will auto-detect your distribution and display an ASCII version of that distribution's logo and some valuable information to the right. There are options to specify no ASCII art, colors, taking a screenshot upon displaying info, and even customizing the screenshot command!

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Open visual traceroute is a free and open-source graphical traceroute tool, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It can also perform packet sniffer and Whois lookup. Data is presented in a 3D map which can be exported to an image file and text file. The gantt view is useful to analyze network bottlenecks.

Open Visual Traceroute 1.6.3 Changelog:

Add max number of hops for traceroute

Add hostname filter for sniffer

Improve embedded traceroute accuracy

Add log windows to show application logs

Add settings to hide non selected labels from the map

Dynamic config to be able to update external content (ip address provider, geoip db location) without having to release a new version of the app

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Ubuntu Tweak is simple tool for configuring Ubuntu Desktop settings, it is no longer under maintenance since May 2016. It allows tweaking of many useful desktop and system configuration options which are unavailable via native system tools.

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008, for Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Linux, OS X, iOS and Android. Google Chrome is also the main component of Chrome OS, where it serves a platform for running web apps.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

I-Nex is an application that gathers information for hardware components available on your system and displays it using an user interface similar to the popular Windows tool CPU-Z. I-Nex can display information for the following components: CPU, GPU, Motherboard, Sound, Hard disks, RAM, Network and USB as well as some system info like the hostname, Linux distribution and version, Xorg, GCC, GLX versions and Linux Kernel info.

Qt 5.6.2 has been released today. This is the second patch release to the long-term supported Qt 5.6, and there will still be more patch releases to come. While a patch release does not bring new features, it contains security fixes, error corrections and general improvements.

The Qt 5.6.2 patch release continues the quality and maturity focus of Qt 5.6, bringing close to 900 improvements on top of the already solid Qt 5.6.1 release. These bug fixes and improvements are also available in the later releases of Qt including the upcoming Qt 5.7.1 and 5.8.0 releases. Qt 5.6.2 is well suited for users that can not upgrade to a later version of Qt, for example due to dependency to C++98 compiler.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Krop is a simple graphical tool to crop the pages of PDF files. It is free software, released under GPLv3+ in the sole hope that you or someone else may find it useful.

A few tricks

If you press Trim Margins on a page without selections, then krop will automatically create a region for the full page with the margins trimmed.

If you are cropping a PDF file with many pages, then you may have some exceptional pages which need to be cropped in a different way then the other pages. In that case, the option Exceptions under Selections apply to will be useful to you.

Psensor is a GTK+ (Widget Toolkit for creating Graphical User Interface) based application software. It is one the simplest application to monitor hardware temperature and plot Real Time graph from the obtained data for quick review.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice call
services. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text,
video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages.
Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Skype is available
for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, as well as Android,
Blackberry, and both Apple and Windows smartphones and tablets.

Highlights of Skype 1.10 for Linux Alpha

The team has been working hard on bringing video calls on Linux and today we have the experimental version ready for you. We are not quite there. The 1-on-1 video calls work only between Skype for Linux Alpha clients for now. Despite the early phase, we’d like to ask you, the Linux community, to help us with testing. Please let us know how the video works for you.

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to
the core a tool you can customize to do anything but also use
productively without ever touching a config file.

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for OS
X, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and
embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application
built using web technologies. Most of the extending packages have free
software licenses and are community-built and maintained. Atom is based
on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell), a framework that enables
cross-platform desktop applications using Chromium and Node.js. It is
written in CoffeeScript and Less. It can also be used as an IDE. Atom
was released from beta, as version 1.0, on June 25, 2015. Its developers
call it a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century".

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Terasology is a game that pays ample tribute to Minecraft in initial look and origin, but stakes out its own niche by adopting the NPC-helper and caretaker feel from such games as Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, while striving for added depth and sophistication.

Terasology Alpha 4 changelog

Dialogs – added to lineup as it is now used in DynamicCities to let the player interact with NPCs (for the trading system for instance)

DynamicCities – heavily updated since last as part of @Cpt. Crispy Crunchy’s GSOC project, may need to run it with MedievalCities enabled too (possible crash issue without?)

Economy – a basic market economy setup for DynamicCities

GooeysQuests – also lots of new stuff by @Florian since last. Beginning to feel more like a dungeon, certainly more dangerous :D

Fotoxx is a free Linux program for editing photos or other images and
managing a large collection. Image directories (folders) can be viewed
as a scrolling gallery of thumbnail images. Navigating directories and
subdirectories is simple and fast. Click on a thumbnail for a full
window view of the image. The image can be zoomed, panned and scrolled
using the mouse. Gallery thumbnails can vary from small to huge. Popup
windows can be used to view multiple images at any scale. Galleries are
also used to display image search results and albums.

Fotoxx 16.10 changelog:

Compensate GTK API changes in Ubuntu 16.10.

Keys F1 (= help) and Escape (= cancel) were made consistent in all dialogs.

The Select Hairy function and user interface were improved somewhat.

The image search function saves its output to the album Search Results (preserve search results when subsequent actions replace the gallery).

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak now is at Final freeze stage, you can now upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 16.10 Final Beta. Ubuntu 16.10, codenamed Yakkety Yak, is scheduled to be released on October 13, 2016.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Glances is a cross-platform command-line curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python language which use the psutil library to grab informations from the system. With Glance, we can monitor CPU, Load Average, Memory, Network Interfaces, Disk I/O, Processes and File System spaces utilization.

Glances is a free tool and licensed under GPL to monitory GNU/Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. There are lots of interesting options available in Glances as well. One of the main features we have seen in Glances is that we can set thresholds (careful, warning and critical) in configuration file and informations will be shown in colors which indicates the bottleneck in the system.

Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It
is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces,
security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more.
Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

NetBeans is an open-source project dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (the NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform) that address the needs of developers, users and the businesses who rely on NetBeans as a basis for their products; particularly, to enable them to develop these products quickly, efficiently and easily by leveraging the strengths of the Java platform and other relevant industry standards.

FileZilla is a free, cross-platform and full-featured FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) solution for the Linux and Open Source ecosystems. It is also
compatible with the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

New features:

Directory listing filters can now be exported and imported

Added the "not all" filter match type to filter out all items not matching all conditions

Added the "not all" search match type to search for all items not matching all conditions

Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.7.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).

Monday, October 3, 2016

Budgie is the flagship desktop of Solus and is a Solus project. Designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance. Written from scratch with integration in mind, the Budgie desktop tightly integrates with the GNOME stack, employing underlying technologies to offer an alternative desktop experience.

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice call
services. Users may exchange such digital documents as images, text,
video and any others, and may transmit both text and video messages.
Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. Skype is available
for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, as well as Android,
Blackberry, and both Apple and Windows smartphones and tablets.

LibreOffice 5.2.2 is bugfix release of the 5.2.x branch
of LibreOffice which contains new features and program enhancements. As
such, the version is stable and is suitable for all users. LibreOffice
5.2.2 version may contain a few annoying bugs which will be fixed in the
next bugfix versions to come.